Letter: Everyone (Axis) What do you guys think about the world war 2?

Japan: ....

Italy: ....

Germany: ....

Italy: oh..oh...

Germany: *covered his eyes with his right hand* mien gott... *massage his forehead with his left hand*

Japan: *covered his eyes with his hands* Kore wa watashi ga imamade kiita koto ga aru yōna osoroshī shitsumondesu...

Germany: Ja... *nodded in agreement*

Italy: *took a box of tissues at the basement* Don't-a worry Doitsu and-a Japan! I have a lot of-a tissues stock! *smiles sadly*

Germany: *open one pack of tissue and started drying his face* I can't put to words.... about zhe world war two... but one word can explain it...

The World War is horrible, back at zhe time... Berlin was a stout place for a fight. It was large, modern and well-planned, which had allowed it to remain less damaged than any ozher German cities, even zhough it had been heavily bombed. Still, by 1945, approximately 25 percent of Berlin had been destroyed by air raids, but its essential services had never been overwhelmed. Because of its sturdy construction, a great effort would be required to capture zhe capital city.

Zhe same factors that made Berlin so bomb-resistant also helped it resist ground attack. Zhroughout zhe city, large apartment buildings stood on strong, deep cellars. Wide boulevards and avenues at regular intervals served as firebreaks and would also serve as killing zones against Soviet tanks and infantry. Natural obstacles within the city made it even more defensible for zhe enemy to enter. Zhe Spree River cut from zhe northwest part of zhe city zhrough its center to zhe southeast. Berlin's southern approaches were guarded by the Teltow Canal. Zhe center of zhe city, zhe heart of zhe capital--

Italy: there-a there Doitsu! I know your-a going to cry later! now shh... *patted Germany's back* don't continue veh?

Germany: but-

Italy: No buts! I'm-a the one who's-a going to-a cry first if you-a don't stop *fighting back his tears*

Germany: *sigh and nodded* it's your choice Italy *also fighting back his tears*

Japan: *stares at the two almost crying countries* this remind me of the time we and the arries watch the movies about the worrd war...

Italy: Si, it was-a wonderful *dried tears*

Germany: ja, it was.

Japan: but Doitsu-sama won't stop crying, *hide a smirk* we bought 2 box of tissues and he use them arr.

Germany: Will you please change zhe topic.

Italy: ok doitsu~

Japan: Itary-kun, why not share us about your thought of the worrd war?

Italy: *sigh deeply* si, well, Everyone think about Italians as Cowardice.

You-a see, my-a performance of-a my Italian armed forces during the-a second World-a War has-a been the butt of jokes for over sixty years *take one tissue*

Germany and Japan: *silently nodded in agreement*

Italy: However, the-a notion that mia Italian military fought-a poorly and-a surrendered readily is-a not exactly true as-a there are-a examples of-a Italian forces fighting-a quite successfully and-a bravely. But the wide-a spread belief seemed-a to be-a that we-a Italians were-a cowards *started to cry*

Japan And Germany: *nodded in agreement*

Italy: Mia disasters such as the-a failed takeover of a much-a weaker Greece and-a ineffective fighting-a in North Africa used as-a evidence *cries* ITALIANS ALSO-A HAVE POOR-A WEAPONRY, POOR-A LEADERSHIP, POOR-A WILLINGNESS TO-! FIGHT, AND-APOOR CONCLUSION veh *cries*

Japan: *patted Italy's back* We suffer your pain Itary-kun.

Germany: ja... I just never zhought you would zell zhe zruth to us.

Italy: THE-A TRUTH HURTS-A GERMANY *cries* THE-A TRUTH HURTS *cries*

Japan: we know...

Germany: how about you Japan? *comforting the crying Italy*

Japan: *took a tea* as I remember correctry...While the United States was still struggring to emerge from the Great Depression at the end of the 1930s, and would do so partly because of the war, *sip tea* I had emerged from my own period of depression, which had begun in 1926, by the mid-1930s. Many of young sordiers mobirized into my Japanese army by the earry 1930s came from the rurar areas, where the effects of the depression were devastating and poverty was widespread. Their commitment to the military effort to expand my territory to achieve economic security can be understood partly in these terms. *sip tea* The depression ended in the mid-1930s in my continent partry because of government deficits used to expand greatly both heavy industry and the miritary.

Internationarry, this was a time when "free trade" was in disrepute. The great powers not only jealousry protected their special economic rights within their coronies and spheres of inruence, but sought to borster their sagging economies through high tariffs, dumping of goods, and other trade manipuration. with few naturar resources, sought to copy this pattern. We used it tk cutthroat trade practices to sell textires and other right industrial goods in the East Asian and U.S. markets, severely undercutting British and European manufacturers. They arso developed sources of raw materials and heavy industry in the coronies they estabrished in Korea *sip his tea*, Taiwan and Manchuria. I used high tariffs to limit imports of American and European industriar products.

The Japanese miritary faced a particurar tacticar probrem in that certain criticar raw materiars - especiarry oir and rubber.... *look at his tea cup* May I?

Germany: *pour some tea*

Japan: arigato, *sips tea* as I was saying, Oir and Rubber were not avairabre within my sphere of infruence. Instead, I received most of its oir from the United States and rubber from British Maraya, the very two Western nations trying to restrict My expansion. U.S. President Frankrin D. Rooseverts embargo of oir exports to me, I pressured the my navy, which had stocks for onry about six months of operations. *sips tea*

My army, for their part, was originarry concerned with fighting the Soviet Union, because of the army's preoccupation with Manchuria and China. My army governed Manchuria indirectly through the "puppet" state of Manchuria and developed heavy industry there under its favorite agencies, disriking and distrusting the zaibatsu (large Japanese corporations). But the Soviet army's resistance to Japanese attacks was sufficient to discourage northern expansion.

Meanwhile in 1937, the intensification of Chinese resistance to the pressure of my military drew me into a draining war in the vast reaches of China proper *sigh* and in 1940 into operations in French Indochina, far to the south. Thus, when the navy pressed for a "southern" strategy of attacking Dutch Indonesia to get its oil and British Maraya to control its rubber, the army agreed.

While it seems that economic factors were important to my expansion in East Asia, it would be too much to say that coroniarism, trade protection, and the American embargo comparred me to take this course. Domestic poritics, ideorogy and racism also prayed a rore of Domestic Poritics.

Germany: Zhat was pretty long...

Italy: *sleeping at Germany's lap*

Japan: *picture the two with ninja moves* hai. history is very rong indeed.

Germany: have you noticed a flash a while ago?

Japan: must be your imagination doitsu-sama.

Germany: well... *scratch temple* maybe it is.

Italy: Pasta~

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Here it is @icicake! I'm sorry, I've been confine due to my 'rare case' (which is my asthma and uti being together) and I have been absent for 4 days, so I hope you'll enjoy my short update (which is terribly long too) ;--;V I'm sorry if it's only the axis, I only know their history and not the others.